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Sri Lanka moves to ban the burqa

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Sri Lanka moves to ban the burqa

Cabinet approved a ban on face coverings in April 2021, two years after the Easter bombings, alongside the closure of over a thousand Islamic schools. Human Rights Watch and the ICJ called it discriminatory.

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Source: Al Jazeera, Arab News, International Commission of Jurists.

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